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While bright young (26) French Choreographer-Dancer Roland Petit was flashing and stomping through his sexy Les Ballets de Paris hit, Carmen, on Broadway last year (TIME, Oct. 17,1949), some other ideas were writhing around in his head...
...night, young Roland could see a little into the cafe; he remembered particularly one regular customer, a "beautiful woman," of whom he could seldom see more than a white arm and shoulder. Another idea in Petit's head came from watching a performance of South Pacific with his Carmen, tiny, bob-haired Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire. He had come out impressed with the gaiety of U.S. musicomedy; she had come out sighing, "I would like to sing like Mary Martin." Somehow, Petit wanted to put a bit of all of those ideas together and produce a ballet with...
...added full lyrics. Eager little "Zizi" Jeanmaire ("Sure I can sing") looked them over, sang her song into the recording machine. Says Petit: "She sounded awful." She went to work with a pianist, and Petit began planning the choreography. Last week, back on Broadway for another season, Petit sidetracked Carmen to put on the result: La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Diamond Cruncher). Right...
Music on the more serious side includes simultaneous rival presentations of Verdi's La Traviata, by the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera Company (City Center, 131 West 55th) tomorrow night. The latter group puts on Aida at 8:15 tonight, Carmen Sunday afternoon, and La Boheme Sunday night...
...reserve backs besides Gallo have seen offensive action, but John Cullity, Carmen Mangianello, Bill DeChard, and Mike Zinkiewicz play defense. This quartet has intercepted ten passes. As fast as the other backs, they have run back the interceptions for a total of 177 yards. Cullity, a safety man, has, in addition, returned a punt 80 yards...